DirectX 11 Goes Mainstream with ATI Radeon HD 5770 & 5750 Launch

Is it to AMD / ATI, so it's time to far more than the past 2 million buyers of Radeon HD 57xx, 58xx and 59xx cards to enjoy the opportunities in DirectX 11th. It must happen with the introduction of the graphics card ATI Radeon HD 5670, which is aimed at the mainstream market with a price of $ 100 for a card with 512 MB of RAM.

The market for graphics cards to a maximum of $ 100 is very important to enter because this segment accounts for two thirds of the total graphics market. AMD hopes the new map, and two even cheaper series Radeon HD 55xx and ATI Radeon HD 54xx, published later, to double the number of GPUs sold in the 5xxx series in the coming months.

The new graphics cards contain 627 million. transistors against 2.15 billion. the flagship Radeon HD 5870th They are divided into 400 stream processors, 20 texture and 8 ROP's. With the significantly lower number of transistors is the energy consumption is also much lower, only 61 watts under load, and 14 watts when not doing 3D calculations.